RA 2006 abrinq.indd - Fundação Abrinq

Funding PartnersThe promotion of seminars and meetings relating to relevant subjects is one of the mostdynamic ways of exchanging information on reality, adopted during its history by theAbrinq Foundation. The Seminário América Latina e Caribe - A primeira infância vemprimeiro, was held in November of 2006, by the Abrinq Foundation at the Sesc Pinheiros,in São Paulo, in partnership with the Sesc São Paulo, the Banco Real, the Unicef, thePan-American Health Organization (OPAS) and the Children’s Rights News Agency – ANDI(Agência de Notícias dos Direitos da Infância). The event deepened the Latin American andCaribbean debate on early childhood and the need to invest in public policies for childrenup to 6 years of age. Specialists from Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, theUnited States and Canada took part in the meeting.More than 400 representatives from social and governmental organizations, businessmen and women, university students and researchers from all over Brazil and overseasdebated on the subject of recognizing the family and society as fundamental actors in theprotection and development of children, the creation and strengthening of mechanisms forlegal and social protection and the need to articulate networks of institutions that promotethe guarantee of rights.The seminar also contributed to the articulation of social organizations focused on earlychildhood. At the end of the event a letter was read out, addressed to the president of theHouse of Representatives at that time, Aldo Rebelo, requesting urgency in the approval ofthe PEC 536/98 Bill, which institutes the Fundeb.Another way of organizing and disseminating information and knowledge is via thesystematization and publication of successful experiences. This being so, in 2006, theAbrinq Foundation systematized the experiences of the winning initiatives in the 2004Prêmio Criança awards:Bons Ventos no Semi-Árido, the experience of the Catavento Communication andEnvironmental Education NGO in the mobilization of radio broadcasters in the stateinterior of Ceará for the rights of early childhood.A Infância no Centro da Roda, training program for child educators integrated withthe rural community development carried out by the Christian Fund for Children(Fundo Cristão para Crianças) (MG).Compartilhando a Arte de Brincar, the experience of the Espaço Compartilharte (RJ) inthe strengthening of community living.De volta pra Casa, the experience of the Casa Novella (MG) in strengtheningfamily living.In partnership with the State Government of Paraná, via the Instituto de Ação Social doParaná – IASP (Paraná Institute of Social Action), a re-print was made of 5,000 copies of“As Histórias de Ana e Ivan – Boas Experiências em Liberdade Assistida”. The general aimof this publication is to share the experiences of social organizations linked to the NossasCrianças Program and that work with the social-educational measure of Parole, therebycontributing to qualification of the process for the municipalization of the same.of the methodology proposed in the publication and the distribution of 400 copies duringthe “Construção Coletiva de Espaços e Tempos de Paz” seminar, held in the municipality ofSão Bernardo do Campo. During this action, the Abrinq Foundation and the representativesof the seven municipalities in the region signed a document to ratify the Acordo Regionalsobre a Execução das Medidas Socioeducativas (Regional Agreement for the Carrying Out ofSocial-Educational Measures).Contributing to a broad international youth protagonism study, the Abrinq Foundationcarried out the “Levantamento de Programas de Serviço Cívico e Voluntariado Juvenil naAmérica e no Caribe”, proposed by the SES Foundation of Argentina, the Programa de Desenvolvimentoe Alcance Juvenil -BID Juventude (Youth Development and Reach Program)of the Inter-American Development Bank (USA) and the Center for Social Development(CDB) of Washington University in Saint Louis (USA). The study mapped 200 institutions inSão Paulo that work with or develop some kind of youth related program.Concerned with gathering and offering reliable and up-to-date information to societyregarding the reality of our children and adolescents, in 2006 the Abrinq Foundationstarted to develop the Observatório Criança (Child Observatory). In partnership with theFord Foundation, the implementation of an internet database was started, for the extractionof information, indicators and qualified analyses regarding the main problems facingchildren and adolescents in Brazil. The aim of this database is to offer more and betterinformation to qualify the debate and actions relating to public policies focused on thissegment of the population.Information like that obtained by Mapa I do Programa Prefeito Amigo da Criança, willbe available on this database as of 2007. Information such as the existence and scopeof municipal health, education and protection programs in over a 1,000 municipalitiesthroughout the country may be accessed by researchers, public administrators and civiliansocial organizations.Besides this, the Abrinq Foundation has a Centro de Documentação e Memória - Cedoc(Document and Memory Center), which has a large archive of books, periodical publications,videos and other media.In 2006, Cedoc made 1,160 loans, 155 institutional presentations from its archives toresearchers and students, 622 electronic responses and responded to 1,937 consultationsfor publications. It acquired 1,115 new books, academic texts, periodic publications,reports and DVDs. It also became the deposit library of the INEP and, as such, now receivesand offers the publications from this organization. In awareness of its responsibility todisseminate knowledge, it donated approximately 2,750 publications to public andcommunity libraries.In the greater metropolitan region known as the ABC, via the Movimento Criança Prioridade1, of the Inter-municipal Consortium for the Greater ABC, the Abrinq Foundation carriedout dissemination of the publication “As Histórias de Ana e Ivan” via the presentation68